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Many years ago, two brothers lived in Lichtenberg Castle who fell in love with the same young girl and grew to hate each other. They finally hated each other so much that one of them swore to starve the other to death, the other to cause his brother to die of thirst. The latter succeeded in trapping his brother in a dungeon, giving him only a few dry crusts to live on. But the prisoner managed to quench his thirst by licking the water that dripped off the walls of his prison. The Castle chaplain, either by compassion or to curry favour, told the other brother how he was managing to survive. Mad with rage at having been tricked, he locked his brother in
a dry cell in full sun where the unfortunate man soon reached the
end of his tether and died. Having achieved his end, the murderous
brother was suddenly filled with remorse and, being unable to support
the weight of his guilt, he threw himself off the top of the rock,
dragging the chaplain with him in his fall. Was it this long agony that the sculptor has immortalised on the illustrated lamp-bases in the North tower? |
